I've a mail from a builder in Australia who says, 'Your plans call for two-foot spars and yet I come down in the morning and discover you've used longer ones. Don't know how you can live with yourself mate.'
Accordingly I have removed the extensions at the rear and when the issue of the rudder-post rears its ugly head we shall deal with it at the time.
But now we turn to capping the deck, which is done by borrowing a two-foot length from each of the 6 x 25 x 2440 lengths of stripwood that we'll use for the laterals.
